January 4, 2007

Why a NINETEEN gun salute? Are you telling me that in the city of Hartford they couldn’t find two more guns?

OK, I’m nitpicking. It was a nice inauguration. I voted for M. Jodi Rell. I think she’ll be a breath of fresh air in the governor’s office. She has been over the past 2 1/2 years. Now, let’s see if she can get something done.

The question is: Can a regular person, a PTA mom, a next-door neighbor, "one of us," lead the state sitting in the chair of the highest office in Connecticut -- or does it take a bombastic, ego-driven, swollen-headed megalomaniac?

And what of the Democrats, controlled by every union ever organized, ready to throw away money down every rat hole that sounds vaguely progressive? How will they cooperate?

I’m drooling as I write this. The next four years look fabulous for editorial cartoons. I have a dead-on caricature of Jodi, finally. She's not easy to draw. She has what I call Average Good Looks, which is difficult to capture.

Her caricature didn’t come together for me until I watched the debates with John what’s-his-name. You know, the Democrat who ran against her. I didn’t get a good caricature of Dan Quayle until the last six months he was in office.

I see the next four years as a chance for Connecticut Republicans to stop being basically a third party, to do some good works, to lead, to inspire, to make us forget about Alan Schlesinger.

Good luck and good health, Snow White. Work smart.

1 Comments

Um, "Democrat Legislature"? Aren't you falling into the Gingrich/Rove/Bush trap? Bush has been calling the Democratic Party the Democrat Party for specific reasons. There's no reason to play into their hands.